Knight v. State

The appellant challenges an order denying his claim that he was illegally sentenced. We reverse.

Appellant contends that the three-year mandatory minimum sentences imposed upon him were illegal because the record demonstrates that his accomplice possessed the only firearm and the jury did not specifically find that he actually possessed a firearm during the commission of the offenses. Because unlike the defendant in Tucker v. State, 726 So.2d 768 (Fla.1999), appellant was not the only individual involved in the incidents out of which the criminal charges arose, the fact that the verdict forms…